Re: [lkcd-general] Re: What's left over.

Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-11-04T15:20:52Z

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

>On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 14:45, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote:
>> Good! This means, people debugging the code have actually to think and
>> don't produce "turn on debugger, step here, there, patch a band aid,

>Some of us debug hardware. Regardless of the nice theories about
>reviewing your code they don't actually work on hardware because no
>amount of code review will let you discover things like undocumented
>2uS deskew delays, or errors in DMA engines

A debugger won't help you here either. A pci bus probe, a 'scope and a
logic analyzer do.

(And experience, elbow grease, experience and a nice amount of ESP :-)
I do hate hardware. Had to debug too much of it (and just on
m68k/MCS-51 where the clock rates are low and the parts easy to
solder...).

Regards
Henning

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